life and times of a young kiwi

Song of the week: Don’t Look Back in Anger

Yes, I too think the opening bars of this song are a shameless ripoff from Imagine. And what’s with the Beatles glasses in the vid? I like to think of it as a tribute.

I got this tape in the United States that had apparently been burgled from the Dakota Hotel and someone had found these cassettes. Lennon was starting to record his memoirs on tape. He’s going on about ‘trying to start a revolution from me bed, because they said the brains I had went to my head.’ I thought ‘Thank you, I’ll take that’!
– Noel Gallagher, Oasis

I love this song because it feels oldschool. First released in 1995, I first listened to it when I was too young to listen to the lyrics or care who sang it. Now it feels like a rocky pop-song that’s trying come off as deep, but is really just awesome for chilling out.

Slip inside the eye of your mind
Don’t you know you might find
A better place to play

Sometimes after too much American pop, it’s nice to get back to some britpoprock. It’s comfy, and easy to listen to. And it feels familiar. Like an old falling-apart sofa that’s been sitting on your porch forever.

So Sally can wait, she knows it’s too late
As she’s walking on by
Her soul slides away, but don’t look back in anger
I heard you say

I’m not a huge Oasis fan. I just don’t even know many of their songs. I’m not sure they’re the huge revolution that everyone seems to think they are, but I think they’ve got a pretty cool sound — no matter what shenannigans they might get up to.

I don’t actually know anybody called Sally. It’s just a word that fitted, y’know, might as well throw a girl’s name in there. It’s gotta guarantee somebody a shag off a bird called Sally, hasn’t it?
– Noel Gallagher, Oasis

You can watch the US version of the song’s MV on YouTube, and look at the song’s lyrics here.

(The lyrics link is to a fresh-lyrics.com page – pop ad and not sure how accurate the lyrics are in some places). Noel Gallagher quotes used here are from wikipedia (and are therefore 100% guaranteed legit. Owait. They’re not).